Locating public services for nomadic population groups is a difficult challenge as the locations of the targeted populations seasonally change. In this paper, the population groups are assumed to occupy different locations according to the time of the year, i.e., winter and summer. A binary integer programming model is formulated to determine the optimal number and locations of primary health u...

Still missing, however, is full support of nomadic computing at the applications layer. This white paper describes a new paradigm that extends nomadic computing to the applications layer. Adoption of this paradigm will enable a new level of powerful applications to attract value-driven users, creating tremendous business development opportunities for enterprises to offer electronic customer rel...

The emergence of the Internet of Things introduces new challenges like network congestion or data privacy. However, it also provides opportunities, such as computational resources close to data sources, which can be pooled to realize Fogs to run software applications on the edge of the network. To foster this new type of resources, we revisit the concept of mobile agents and evolve them to so-c...

1 This work has been carried out within the priority programme "Mobile Communication" of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grant no. Sp. 230/12-2 and within the ACTS-project AMASE (AC 346) of the European Commission Abstract The future nomadic customer will want to make requests according to his personal service profile and to be reachable under the same number, no matter with whi...

The ability to determine the position of a device has fundamental importance in context-aware and location dependent mobile computing. Most previously proposed location systems may not be appropriate for nomadic applications such as home service robots due to low update rate and insufficient accuracy. In this paper, we propose a multi-sensor wireless location system that provides accurate locat...

Without new products and services utilizing this infrastructure (m-services), however, these investments may never be recollected, and today there is no sure sign of demand for these new “nomadic applications” in the market. This paper shows how actors in the m-services value network co-ordinate their efforts to bring such applications to the marketplace. It shows their risk averse and locally ...

How should nomadic web content be designed to improve and transform user experiences in a hands-on museum? In this study, 15 users were studied while using an electronic guidebook designed to augment user experiences via wireless technologies at the Exploratorium, an interactive science museum. Several recurring themes emerged from the analysis, such as users’ sense of isolation and users’ atte...